The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

All successful people, men, and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

A woman with good shoes is never ugly

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right: It is the ideal American who is all wrong.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

The Hindu religion is the only of the World’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine, or idealism

Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers

The business of America is business, and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism

I have always secretly felt that what mankind should be in an ideal sense is that mixture of people and races. I really believe in it. I don’t think there is anything sacred in the integrity of race, white or black.

Any woman can find a husband unless she is deaf, dumb or blind. She cannot always marry the ideal man of her choice.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

Grow into your ideals, so that life can never rob you of them

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.